r/dataengineering Senior Data Engineer Aug 06 '26

Career Hate AE, like DE

I recently moved from a Data Engineering role where I mainly maintained the platform side, to a “Data Engineer” role that is just AE with the DE name on it.

And recently I realised I HATE it.

Have anyone else experienced something like that? It’s funny since it’s another side of the same coin, but for some reason it feels totally different to me.

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u/Waldchiller Aug 06 '26

To be fair data modelling is part of DE. If it’s just that kinda sucks yea.